PC Engine

:For more information on the North American version of this system, see TurboGrafx 16.

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The PC Engine was a video game console released by NEC, a Japanese company, in 1987.

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The PC Engine was a collaborative effort between Japanese software maker Hudson Soft (which maintains a chip-making division) and NEC. In a classic example of good timing, Hudson was looking for financial backing for a game console they had designed, and NEC was looking to get into the lucrative game market. The PC Engine was and is a very small video game console, due primarily to a very efficient three-chip architecture and its use of HuCards, credit-card sized data cartridges. It featured an enhanced MOS Technology 65C02 processor and a custom 16-bit graphics processor, as well as a custom video encoder chip, all designed by Hudson.

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TurboGrafx 16: For information on the Japanese version of this console, see PC Engine...

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